Shields National Class Association

The 2012 Shields Nationals is the 48th annual event and will be held from Wednesday September 19, 2012 to Saturday September 23, 2012 in Marion, MA. Shields Fleet 10 and the Beverly Yacht Club will be the sponsors. The Notice of Race has now been posted.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (December, 2011)

Cape Cod Shipbuilding Co. appoints a new president.

Wareham, MA. Cape Cod Shipbuilding Co. at its end of year board meeting announced the election of Wendy Goodwin as it’s president. Ms. Goodwin will also serve as treasurer. She joined the company in 1993, is the 3rd generation of Goodwin’s to lead the company, and succeeds her father Gordon Goodwin & grandfather E.L. Goodwin who acquired the company in 1939. An active sailor, Ms. Goodwin has won numerous championships on a regional & national level.

Cape Cod Shipbuilding Co., founded in 1899, is a sailboat manufacturer & boatyard. This Wareham based company has the exclusive rights to build the Nat Herreshoff designed H-12 ½, Bull’s Eye, Goldeneye and Marlin; and builds the Mercury, Shields One-Design and Atlantic.

National Regatta - 2011 was in in Oyster Bay, NY

Photos from the event.

Congratulations to John Burnham and Reed Baer for winning the the 2011 Shields National Regatta! See the final scores.

Photo credit: Cheryll Kerr/regattaphotos.net

Team Grace (#107): Reed Baer, Matt Buechner, Peter Schott, Frank Alexander, John Burnham

Photo credit: Cheryll Kerr/regattaphotos.net

The objects of the Association are to promote Corinthian racing of Shields Class yachts and to maintain the one-design character thereof as sponsored by Cornelius Shields and designed by Sparkman & Stephens, Inc.

Shields Registry of boats.
List of past champions.
Mast step placement rule Section IV: 5.11.
Check out the entry in Wikipedia for Shields Sailboat.
Regatta Form for proposals to host a National Regatta.

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Shields One Design Sailing Association Fleet #3 showed Shields hull #98 at the Strictly Sail Chicago show on February 2 - 5, 2006.

A few pictures from the event follows:

January 2010 Class of the Month: The Shields
(Sail Magazine).